everydaysketch

Figure Drawing

2006-01-23T18:18:00.000-06:00

Lately I've been missing life drawing. Particularly drawing the clothed figure in an illustrative setting. In school we did plenty of it but I always felt the costumes were kind of cheesy and second rate. The photo I did this drawing from came from The Drawing Club's blog and their workshops look amazing and inspired. Alas I'm in Chicago and not LA, so no Drawing Club workshop for me. As you can see, drawing from a photo doesn't reward one with the same loose and spontaneous quality you would get from drawing the figure from life. It feels kind of stilted and careful, and that's probably because I had more time to work on it than I would if the person were actually there in front of me. If anything it was a good exercise in getting me familiar with full figure drawing, as well as messing around with mixed media. But if anyone knows of any good clothed figure drawing workshops in Chicago let me know, It's time my rusty skills got a little greased!

MF Doom illustration

2005-12-29T00:52:00.000-06:00

Done on board with acrylic

Sketch bucket

2005-12-29T00:44:00.000-06:00

These are some sketches done recently in various books

Wintersmoke

2005-12-11T07:21:00.000-06:00

it's cold in these here parts

Like Rip van Winkle

2005-11-30T09:15:00.000-06:00

Too much has been going on for me to keep up with the posting. I've got plenty of new sketches to put up as well as other goodies so expect them soon. I apologize for the abrupt disappearance but day job + personal work = broke ass Eugene!

On another note: I am available for commissions such as this Old School Iron Man I did about a month ago;

full watercolor finishes - $175
pen & ink - $110
pencil finish - $70

All commissions done on heavy duty cold press watercolor paper and are in the 11 x 14/12 x 16 size (default size, I'll work bigger or smaller and price accordingly). Could take up to two weeks, shipping included.

I'll be back

BANG!

2005-09-13T17:54:00.000-05:00

This is what i've currently been working on aside from Monstercake.
It's for an upcoming show at the Judy Saslow Gallery in Chicago. I believe its 50 artists each painting a primed skull. There's no deep meaning in this here piece, just me having fun painting on something three dimensional. True, its political, but to all you Republicans I've got one thing to say; you hate me because I am free.

HA!

The Bush Bang!

2005-09-08T00:17:00.000-05:00

I've been a little neglectful of everydaysketch lately, what with Monstercake, as well as the obligatory job, and the encroaching deadline for a three dimensional piece for an upcoming show I am participating in.

I'll get my poo together....someday

Monstercake! Monstercake!

2005-08-19T14:25:00.000-05:00

monstercake is loose!

2005-08-15T13:35:00.000-05:00

Monstercake is here....

the blood king

2005-07-27T08:56:00.000-05:00

illustration done in pen and ink

Last page of the current sketchbook, time to start anew!

2005-07-26T23:47:00.000-05:00

cranking with the ink pens

2005-07-24T18:27:00.000-05:00

the vampire drama continues!

having fun with the ol' ink pens

2005-07-24T03:24:00.000-05:00

Tonight I went crazy with some new ink pens - for whatever reason I like to draw ghouls and goblins and all the typical monsters we all know and love. I started to have this idea in my head for a soap opera with vampires, anyways I had fun with it. Why the fuck i'm up at 3 in the am creating characters for a vampire soap opera is anybody's guess.

Super dork out....

cosmonaut photoshop finish

2005-07-20T17:04:00.000-05:00

I decided to fugg with this one in photoshop. I need to get a wacom tablet pronto!

el diablo in color.

2005-07-19T00:15:00.000-05:00

I hate photoshop. There, I said it.

el diablo

2005-07-17T23:52:00.000-05:00

dark bunny

2005-07-17T23:51:00.000-05:00

Joker

2005-07-17T23:50:00.000-05:00

cosmonaut.

2005-07-14T09:34:00.000-05:00

pencils-

color rough-

finish-

Process - vampire

2005-07-13T17:25:00.000-05:00

It's been too long since I posted last but I am happy to say I have new things to show. I wanted to show the process into making a tiny illustration. The original size of the work is about 3 by 4 inches.

Here's the initial pencil sketch of the piece.

Phase 2 is a simple flat acrylic wash with watercolour applied to the face and suit.

The final phase is done by applying a thin warm turp wash over the piece and adding some color pencil details to various areas. I also fine tuned the blood with more watercolour washes and added a heavy-body coat of white acrylic to the suit to give it some texture.

fluff enuff

2005-06-29T20:42:00.000-05:00

Who knows what I was thinking here... I wanted to create a cool tshirt design but something doesn't work right with this one. Maybe it's my lack of experience with ink nibs. I just couldn't get a nice flow with the strokes. Anyone got any pointers?

Process - pt.3 - finished pencils, panel C

2005-06-26T23:23:00.000-05:00

So this is the final panel for the illustration. Now all I have to do is run them through photoshop and get them all grouped together to make one piece.

Process - pt. 2 -finished pencils, panel B

2005-06-23T01:09:00.000-05:00

So this one will get finished in photoshop as well. These two panels will book-end a center panel that will be a little larger in size. That one should be done soon.

Process - pt. 1 -finished pencils, panel A

2005-06-19T15:39:00.000-05:00

This is the first of three panels I'm working on to illustrate the notion of us having robot lovers in the far off future. It's a proposal for a sci-fi magazine that's coming out of Australia. What you see is the finished pencils. I plan to put the drawing into Photoshop to give it color and some extra effects.

2005-06-10T15:24:00.000-05:00

Heads on Fire

2005-06-08T12:49:00.000-05:00

these are some old oil paintings on wood done about 2 years ago.

PARADE! sketchbook completed

2005-06-06T09:57:00.000-05:00

ghost head

2005-06-04T12:44:00.000-05:00

the motherload

2005-05-31T21:39:00.000-05:00

Today I came across a couple of old sketchbooks and went crazy with the scanner. I've been too warped out of my mind to make any art over the last couple of days so I'm sifting through the dregs for resources. Hereyago;

I wish I made Dream look a lot more punk and a little less glam-rock, but oh well...

sketches from some random airport.

Goldman IS the Devil!

Back Tomorrow with some new doo!

The newness

2005-05-30T22:43:00.000-05:00

More two face sketches. I think I'm done with these for a little bit.

These are some concept sketches for futuristic youth gangs, you know, your basic Clockwork Orange Stuff.

This I'm posting again as a scan.

I finished the front cover for this sketchbook about a month ago but didn't have a good quality scan for posting. It's a collage with mixed media. I'm working on the back cover of this sketchbook and will post it in a couple of days.

Ella

2005-05-26T18:20:00.000-05:00

this is more recent.

earth to eugene, do you read?

2005-05-26T18:15:00.000-05:00

an old sketch I found. I am up and running...will procure scanner soon.

the last (well, not really the last) hoorah pt. 2

2005-04-26T02:06:00.000-05:00

The time has come folks... Mary and I are hi-tailin' it out of San Francisco and Chicago bound in a day!
There was a little snafu with some of the other images I wanted to post, so it'll have to wait till we get settled.
Thanks for all your comments, there highly appreciated and have been a great impetus for me to continue this little blog project.

Special thanks goes out to the Lord of blogging, for without him we would be but primitive cave dwellers, making funny marks on stones.

More special thanks goes to Lane and Sutter. It was because of them that I had come out of my hiding in the first place.

Please check back in about 2 - 4 weeks. I'll have a new, shiny scanner of my own for personal use, as well as all the stuff I will have done in the interim to show you all.

Thanks & Goodnight.
Eugene "Bedhead" Smith

the last hoorah! pt. 1

2005-04-25T14:42:00.000-05:00

I can't help it, geekiness is in the genes

a sketch of mary done in pencil

something random done in pencil

a whole sketch page, unedited. the figure on the right is supposed to resemble Buck 65. I drew him as if he were some lecherous pervert.

From the ol' sketchbook

2005-04-25T14:33:00.000-05:00

Our time is almost up so I'll be posting several bits of ephemera from my sketchbooks today. And than I'll be absent for about 2 - 3 weeks.

Say No, kids.

2005-04-21T23:57:00.000-05:00

Disclaimer - drugs make you crazy....

Word is bomb

2005-04-21T01:53:00.000-05:00

This here work was done in pencil!

I haven't painted in about a month and a half and it's starting to get to me.

I'm tired, and debated with myself whether or not to bother with making the obvious Bush bashing comments, but hey he's our president, and it's like Britney says-ya gotta listen to your president! Over the last couple of days my brain's been mush. Perhaps it's the up coming move (context=wife and I going to Chicago) It seems that tends to be my style when things start getting gritty, shut-down, enact the auto-pilot feature, and freak out later.

But on a good note, my 30th birthday has come and gone sans any sort of "life-crises." A lot of people have asked me whether i've lost my shit and seem dumbfounded when I tell them no. These life markers we set for ourselves can be traps and pretty much result in nothing but high blood pressure and an unnecessary sense of dissapointment. What the hell, I was angst ridden enough as a teenager, why carry that crap over into my adult life. Of course one could argue that i'm still a kid, and quite frankly I wouldn't disagree. So anyways, no deep ruminations here about my life so far. No words of wisdom or clever insights. Just brush your damn teeth, wear comfortable shoes, and look up at the clouds kids, and your ass'll be fine.

Nick Cave

2005-04-20T00:43:00.000-05:00

Johnny Cash

2005-04-16T11:51:00.000-05:00

Done with acrylic on board.

Bjork ink sketch

2005-04-15T18:12:00.000-05:00

tweedy ink sketch

2005-04-13T12:42:00.000-05:00

Pitcher study

2005-04-13T01:02:00.000-05:00

This is a study for a future painting I plan to work on in oil. It was done with acrylic on rives BFK. One of the things i've been wanting to work on with my oil paintings is to loosen up and let the paint itself express a representation of things without being too exact and photorealistic. This is a hard stuff for me. I came from a school that at the time really pushed it's students to try to accurately represent what their eyes were seeing. In a lot of ways this helped me to observe. In other ways I feel like I got bogged down in a sort of "hyper-observation," where I felt the need to record exactly what I was observing. After a while one's eyes begin to hurt with this approach, so a change was in order.

One of my favorite painters is Alex Kanevsky. The way he uses paint to make suggestions of what he sees amazes me. His paintings our by no means simple. They contain a multitude of brushstrokes and colors that complement and sometimes compete with eachother. Often you can see hints of figures or objects that seem to have been erased to make way for another figure or object. His finished paintings become more than just the end result, but a display of the process that goes into a painting.

That's what I've been liking about my more recent paintings; they're becoming more of a representation of a process as oppossed to a desired effect. They're feeling looser, and they are becoming a lot more fun to work on. When I have the money to get some good slides, I'll post them for you all.

That being said, I have to say the Bechtle show at SFMoma was damn fine. I still have an appreciation for painters who can paint photorealistically, and he is one of the best.

So at any rate, feel free to give any comments on the study.

So, what the hell was I saying?

2005-04-13T00:19:00.000-05:00

As some of you (or not a damn one of you) know, many months ago my scanner decided to prematurely end its life. It was a sad moment in my life as I realized that everydaysketch would not be so "everyday" and that my reputation would be quickly sullied. For months the loss of my dear friend Hp ScanJet 4570c (lets just call him/her Ol Hp) was too much for my fragile heart to bear. I found solace for Ol Hp's death in the drink, like many weak men before me, and could be found in bars of questionable reputation and the alleys behind these bars. Lo and behold my dear friend Sutter retrieved me from this life of self-pity and demanded that I get my life back in order. With the help of his lady's (Lane)formidable scanner, Tanktron, and Sutter's own good guidance, I have been able to scan several items from my sketchbook that represent my efforts in the months without Ol Hp's companionship. Hence I will be posting new material every other day or so for the next couple of weeks. I should note that my wife and I will be leaving San Francisco for Chicago at the end of April. One of the first things I'll be doing upon arriving in Chicago will be to find me a new trusty scanner so I may present to all of you, on a daily basis, my most recent little doodles and observations. And that's that!

And another...

2005-01-12T12:26:00.000-06:00

sketchbook covers

2005-01-12T12:05:00.000-06:00

Lookey here! I felt like I had to post something, so here's a cover to my sketchbook. My scanner is still on crack...

scanner crap

2005-01-08T00:46:00.000-06:00

I have many things to post and no way to post them. My scanner is acting like a piece of poo again. Either we get a new scanner or somehow miraculously solve the issues with the current one we have. I do intend for this blog to actually be an "everyday" sort of thing. But alas, i'm a ludite, so gimme a couple more days folks.

buck 65 doodle

2005-01-06T21:48:00.000-06:00

pencil sketch

ghost dog

2005-01-06T21:45:00.000-06:00

pencil sketch colored in photoshop

Tweedy

2005-01-06T21:33:00.000-06:00

a little pencil drawing of wilco's frontman

tom waits

2005-01-06T00:35:00.000-06:00

pencil drawing

bat people

2005-01-06T00:27:00.000-06:00

sketchbook stuff

heady

2005-01-06T00:17:00.000-06:00

acrylic painting on 2 x 4

ladies & gentlemen!

2005-01-05T15:53:00.000-06:00

This here blog is being presented to you for your viewing pleasures. Perhaps daily (most likely every other day) I will present you with my latest handiwork from my trusty sketchbook. I may also be posting more finished work as well. I hope you enjoy and all criticisms and praises are greatly appreciated. Thank you kind sirs and madams!